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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 16 2009 - 20:41:58 CDT

Jeff,
  I looked in the raw HTML on that URL you posted (via "view source" in
firefox), and it appears that all of the spaces are still there in
the HTML itself, but firefox is collapsing them when it renders the page.
I agree that the behavior is rather odd. I'll have to look and see
if I can do something to alter the way the web archive is generated.
Maybe there are some options I can tweak to improve this situation.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 09:31:09PM -0400, JT wrote:
> John,
> When I type something like the following (which appears in this post
> - http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/mailing_list/vmd-l/13308.html):
>
> 1 4
> \ /
> 2 ---------- 3
>
> There should be a large number of spaces between the 1 and 4 on the
> first line and between the \ and / on the second line. The above
> diagram represents 4 atoms connected as 1-2-3-4, except they connect
> in a U-shaped pattern, with the 1 (top left), 2 (bottom middle-left),
> 3 (bottom middle-right) and 4 (top right). I typed my message using
> the spacebar to generate the spaces, but when I go to the VMD-L page
> (linked above), it displays no spaces. I checked it using 3 different
> browsers. Am I doing something incorrectly by posting spaces like
> this? I'm not quite following you when you speak of the 'HTML
> version' versus 'actual count of spaces'. I was hoping that other
> people's web browsers would allow them to see my intended number of
> spaces.
> Perplexed,
> Jeff Tibbitt
>
>
>
> On Mar 16, 2009, at 6:49 PM, John Stone wrote:
>
> >
> >Jeff,
> > Are you referring to the way the messages display in the HTML
> >version, or in terms of the actual count of spaces? The HTML-ized
> >version will likely display in a proportional font on most browsers,
> >so this may be (part of?) the problem. I don't think the actual text
> >of the messages is being reformatted in any significant way.
> >
> >Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> >On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 07:58:01PM -0400, JT wrote:
> >>Hi. I've noticed in the VMD-L archives that messages have blank
> >>spaces truncated. Is there a way to place tags in the message to
> >>keep
> >>that from happening?
> >>Thanks,
> >>Jeff T.
> >
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NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349
  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078